Strong Towns Nanaimo is proud to host Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear from The War On Cars podcast as they tour the continent to celebrate the release of their new book: Life After Cars! Come learn about the beauty of a life without an automobile and join your two favourite authors & podcasters for a moderated roundtable discussion on transportation, sustainability, and mobility in the urban context.
📅 Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
⌚ Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PST (Doors open at 12:45 PM)
📌 Location: Vancouver Island Conference Centre
⌛ Duration: 2 hours
🎫 Admission: All ages welcome
Sarah Goodyear is a journalist and author who has covered cities and transportation for publications such as Grist, CityLab, and Streetsblog. Doug Gordon is a TV producer and writer who is also a neighborhood safe streets advocate, better known online as Brooklyn Spoke. Aaron Naparstek is the founding editor of Streetsblog, a news site that launched in 2006 and is dedicated to what was then called New York’s “livable streets” renaissance. They came together to create The War on Cars podcast in 2018 out of a sense that no one was covering the subject of cars and what they do to culture, society, and the planet in the way they felt it deserved. Doug and Sarah continue to host the podcast and have now authored their first book together.
We encourage attendees to explore car-free transportation options to get to this event about life after cars!